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Sunday, March 13, 2016

Marmon Motor Company

Welcome to Old Car Week here at OPOD. WE will be looking back at the early days of the automobile. We start with this picture of a Marmon Motor Car. Marmon is a car brand mostly forgotten today but they were a maker of premium automobiles. They produced their last cars in the 1930's and the company mostly succumbed to the financial stresses of the great depression. Certain parts of the company survived making long haul trucks. Today, some aspects of the company survive as the Marmon Group.

Grhaham, I got the two model T's in 1976. While they were prized possessions, I sold then a couple of years ago. As you know, my daughter, the lovely Ms. EAM lives in Africa, so we are lightening up on things, imagining a day we will move over to be with her.

Having had some white wall tires in the 1970s (they came on a used car, didn't cost me extra), they were just on the outside walls. There was a bit of a fad in the 1950s, if I remember the decade right (I'm definitely not a car fanatic) of having side walls match the color of the car--light green or blue especially, as I recall. People older than 21 thought it was pretentious, so the fad probably lasted one car season. This picture of a snazzy convertible, expensive but definitely not pretentious, seems to have been taken on the Mall in Washington, D.C. That looks like the Washington Monument in the background.

About Me

I grew up in West Texas, and could not wait to get away. I got away, and went to the University of Texas, and then on to Stanford. I saw the world, and decided what I really wanted was to be in West Texas. So here I am, right back where I started. I had it all, and found it was not that great.

I have been an avid collector of old photographs and documents for over 30
years. The photographs on this site are derived from material I have collected
over the years. Some came from old family albums, some from material I bought at
flea markets over the years, and some from government archives of public domain
images, including the US Library of Congress, and the National Archives. We
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